Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds

L. McJannet, Bernadette Andrea, L. McJannet, Bernadette Andrea

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9780230115422
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230119826
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Middle Eastern History
• Index: Literature

The essays in this book analyze a range of genres and considers geographical areas beyond the Ottoman Empire to deepen our post-Saidian understanding of the complexity of real and imagined "traffic" between England and the "Islamic worlds" it encountered and constructed.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Series Editors’ Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• List of Contributors
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction: Islamic Worlds in Early Modern English Literature
• 1 From Maurice to Muhammad: Othello, Islam, and Baptism
• 2 Islam, Race, and Political Legitimacy in Ralegh’s The Life and Death of Mahomet
• 3 Persian Icons, Shi‘a Imams: Liminal Figures and Hybrid Persian Identities on the English Stage
• 4 The Tartar King’s Masque and Performances of Imperial Desire in Mary Wroth’s The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania
• 5 Mariam Khan and the Legacy of Mughal Women in Early Modern Literature of India
• 6 “by my owne experience or the Most probablest Relation off others”: Manuscript Travel Writing and Peter Mundy’s “Relation” of Constantinople (1617–20)
• 7 Guy of Warwick, Godfrey of Bouillon, and Elizabethan Repertory
• 8 “Now will I be a Turke”: Performing Ottoman Identity in Thomas Goffe’s The Courageous Turk
• 9 The Frontiers of Twelfth Night
• 10 “A Turk’s mustachio”: Anglo-Islamic Traffic and Exotic London in Ben Jonson’s Every Man out of His Humour and Entertainment at Britain’s Burse
• 11 “Oranges and lemons say the bells of St. Clement’s”: Domesticating Eastern Commodities in London Comedies
• Bibliography
• Index